Pictures of Belonging

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Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo

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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo is an unprecedented exhibition catalogue that reintroduces three trailblazing Japanese American artists from the pre–World War II generations. Featuring over ninety works spanning eight decades and four states, it traces their artistic journeys from portraiture and figurative works, through landscapes and still lifes of the wartime period, to postwar abstractions. This book broadens the narrative beyond the injustice of Japanese American incarceration to celebrate the rich and diverse American experience expressed through these pioneering women artists.
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This publication is ideal for lovers of arts and culture, historians specialising in Japanese American heritage, and those interested in underrepresented artists in American art history. It also appeals to visitors and followers of the related exhibitions hosted at major museums across the United States.

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This unprecedented exhibition reintroduces three trailblazing Japanese American artists of the pre–World War II generations.

Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo brings together over ninety works by three pioneering Japanese American artists from the pre–World War II era. Despite long careers and critical acclaim, Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo have largely been overlooked in traditional American art history. This groundbreaking exhibition reintroduces their work and explores their deep connections with each other for the first time.

Through three chronological sections, the exhibition traces the careers of these artists from the 1920s to the 1990s. "Faces & Communities" presents pre–World War II portraiture and figurative works, while "Belongings & (dis)Locations" showcases landscapes and still lifes from the prewar and wartime periods. The final section, "Explorations & Rediscoveries," features postwar abstractions.

Pictures of Belonging foregrounds the rich and heterogeneous oeuvres of Hayakawa, Hibi, and Okubo, which spanned eight decades and four states, highlighting the diverse communities in which these trailblazing artists flourished before, during, and after World War II. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, this book shifts the spotlight from the injustice and tragedy of Japanese American incarceration toward a broader picture of the so-called American experience through the compelling, divergent lives and artworks of these women of Japanese descent.

Published by the Japanese American National Museum in association with University of California Press and with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Exhibition dates:

February 24 to June 30, 2024, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah

November 15, 2024, to August 17, 2025, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, District of Columbia

October 2, 2025, to January 4, 2026, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

February 5, 2026, to April 19, 2026, at the Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California

Fall 2026 at the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520394674

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 169 color illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by ShiPu Wang

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 260.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 1497g

Pages: 188

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

ShiPu Wang is the Coats Family Chair in the Arts and Professor of Art History at University of California, Merced. He is a former editorial board member of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's American Art and now serves on the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Board of Commissioners. Wang is the author of Becoming American? The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi and The Other American Moderns: Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa. Wang was also the curator and editor of Chiura Obata: An American Modern.